Dew Drop – January 28, 2022 (#3609)

Top Links

• Foldable SDK update with Jetpack Window Manager (Sorin Albu)
• Flutter Update: Windows – Tune in 2/3 at 10:00AM PST for exciting news for Windows developers about Flutter (Flutter Team)
• Hanselminutes – Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History with Evan Amos (Scott Hanselman)
• Deploying Uno Platform Applications to Azure (Uno Platform Team)
• No Dogma Podcast #160 – Brandon Minnick, .NET MAUI (Bryan Hogan)
• Get Started | Create a WinUI 3 app (updated) (Windows Dev Docs)

Web & Cloud Development

• Using MailMerge in ASP.NET Core 6 Web Applications and Adding SVG Watermarks to Documents (Bjoern Meyer)
• Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 6 (Brennan Conroy)
• Implementing OAuth 2 Using Node.js (Chinedu Imoh)
• How to Use Serilog in ASP.NET Core Web API (Claudio Bernasconi)
• WebStorm 2022.1 Early Access Program Is Now Open! (Ekaterina Ryabukha)
• Outlook JavaScript API deprecation for AttachmentDetails.contentType property (Microsoft Office Team)
• Pure and Impure Functions in JavaScript: A Complete Guide (Ravindu Shehan Perera)
• Microsoft launches landing zone accelerator for Azure Arc-enabled servers (Vijay Kumar)
• Getting Halo Infinite Match Stats With Official Halo API (Den Delimarsky)
• Learn Responsive Design (Brad Frost)
• Cloud trends show customers increasing investments in hybrid and multicloud (Erin Chapple)
• Updating Gulp Sass 4 to Gulp Sass 5 (Jason Gaylord)
• How to Build a Jamstack Application in Postman (Joyce Lin)
• Jan. releases: Pulumi Packages support for plugins hosted anywhere and Pulumi Service 3rd party audit for secrets decryption (Meagan Cojocar)
• Hot Chocolate GraphQL Pagination Using Cursor Technique [.NET 6] (Naveen Bommidi)
• Is a Multicloud Strategy Right for Your Organization? (Ron Powell)
• Which .NET GraphQL Clients Should Your App Use? (Sameer Doshi)
• GoLand 2022.1 Early Access Program Has Started! (Sergey Kozlovskiy)
• Top Ten Most Common Web Accessibility Issues (TPGi)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Platform Specific Code using Partial Classes in .NET MAUI (Dave Murray)
• Multiple Selection Made Easy Using the WinUI 3 ComboBox Control (Jegan R)

Visual Studio & .NET

• Difference Between ValueTuple and Tuple in C# (Code Maze)
• NDepend: Static Analysis for .NET (Cody Merritt Anhorn)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Creating the Conditions for Developer Happiness (Jeremy D. Miller)
• App Modernization: 5 Tips When Migrating to Kubernetes (Nicolas Vermande)
• Psychological safety is critical for high-performing teams (Lori Colston)
• What is a wireframe? The definitive guide (Sketch Team)
• The Retirement of SpecFlow+ Runner (Andreas Willich)
• You Don’t Have to Pay the A**hole Tax: How to Avoid Working for a Bad Boss (Brandi Neal)
• Git: Switching Unstaged Changes to a New Branch (Chris Coyier)
• Creating an API-First Culture and Company, Part 1 (Karthik Krishnaswamy)
• The Guide to PubSub (Publish/Subscribe) (Leonardo Maldonado)
• A practical right-to-left example (Steve Fenton)
• How To Schedule Your Day Effectively (Tyler Hakes)
• The Role of CI/CD Pipeline in Software Development (Vishal Rustagi)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Building apps for Android Automotive OS (Madan Ankapura)
• Flutter: Introducing `url_router` – A simple Router controller. (Shawn Blais)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• CppCast – Docker Development and Modernizing OOD with Yacob Cohen-Arazi (Rob Irving)
• Dos and Don’ts of Blockchain – Adventures in DevOps 102 (Jonathan Hall & Will Button)
• Azure Podcast Episode 409 – Azure Service Connector (Sujit D’Mello)
• Getting the Right SignalR with Andrew Evans – Adventures in Angular 338 (Armen Vardanyan & Charles Max Wood)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Motivating new teams with the Superpowers retrospective format | Priyanka Gorai (Vasco Duarte)
• Get started with Microsoft Teams in Mobile (Microsoft Teams)
• Rocket 370: Not Garbage! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• One Dev Question – What is the BAMStack? (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• UX Podcast #281 – Organisational trauma with Vivianne Castillo (James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom)
• Web Rush Episode 168: Create web apps using Firebase with Ankit Sharma (John Papa, Ward Bell, Dan Wahlin & Craig Shoemaker)
• Radical Candor S4, Ep. 1: Rock Star Mode Versus Superstar Mode (Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler)
• Talk Python to Me #350: Python Steering Council 2021 Retrospective (Michael Kennedy)
• 8 Bits with Mark Allibone! (Pj Metz & Brandon Minnick)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast – Using synthetic data to power machine learning while protecting user privacy (Ryan Donovan)
• Fairness and Helping Each Other – 10 tips with Adam Cogan and Keep your npm and Yarn packages up to date and Don’t just say hello on IM and Super fast transactions using Cosmos DB and Redis (SSW TV)

Community & Events

• How a student leader cultivates on-campus diversity and leadership in Australia (Matthew Ranocchiari)
• Forest Guard: Microsoft Student Hackathon winners create rapid-response deforestation sensor (Jacob Block)
• Advent of Code 2021 in Kotlin: Announcing the Winners (Ksenia Shneyveys)
• Inspiring Women: Leslie Ramirez (Leomaris Reyes)

Database

• Cumulative Update #15 for SQL Server 2019 RTM (Srinivas Kandibanda)
• An Overview of System Function LOGINPROPERTY for SQL Login Details (Manvendra Singh)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Introducing Device Trade-In for Microsoft Teams (Meera Ajam)
• CLI for Microsoft 365 v4.4 (Arjun Menon)
• From empowering frontline workers to accessibility improvements—here’s what’s new in Microsoft 365 (Jared Spataro)

Miscellaneous

• macOS 12.3 Will Break Cloud-Storage Features Used By Dropbox and OneDrive (BeauHD)
• Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22543 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Fake a Cleaner, Cooler Workspace in 2022 with Free Virtual Backgrounds (Jacqueline Bieringer)
• 4 AI Themes for Businesses in 2022 (Microsoft in Business Team)
• Windows Server End of Support: Key Dates (Pat Widjaja)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #3399 (Chris Alcock)
• Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2022.01.28 (Jay Gordon)
• Collective #696 (Mary Lou)
• The Wolf Report – January 28th, 2022 (Michael Wolfenden)
• Weekly Xamarin – Issue 336 – 28th Jan 2022 (Kym Phillpotts)
• PHP Annotated — January 2022 (Roman Pronskiy)

The Geek Shelf

 Purely Functional Data Structures (Chris Okasaki) – Referral Link